Dead Men's Secrets

Hitler's special forces, led by the ruthless Otto Skorzeny, carried out some of the most daring raids of WWII, including the first glider-borne assault, a paratroop aerial assault on the Island of Crete, and the audacious rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from his mountaintop prison. For the first time, the hidden world of these elite forces is uncovered as we feature never-before-seen footage filmed by German cameramen.

Italy and Germany attempt to wrest control of the Suez Canal from Britain.

The Red Orchestra provides accurate information about Nazi secrets.

In the last years of WWII, Hitler's war machine turned in desperation to some of the strangest weapons ever devised--an arsenal of advanced technological weapons so secret that even today, their true uses remain a mystery. We look at the EM Messerschmitt

U.S. intelligence gathering develops during World War II through the Office of Strategic Services and the Allied Intelligence Bureau.

At the start of WWII, the race had begun between the Nazis and the Allies to be the first to create an atomic weapon. By teaming up with the Japanese, Hitler planned to launch an atomic attack on San Francisco on August 17, 1945. But on August 6, an American Superfortress dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the war ended shortly after. We reveal shocking footage that demonstrates just how close the Nazis came to creating an atomic bomb and how close the US came to nuclear catastrophe.